Improvement in edge-ball compounds for boots and shoes



UNITED STATEs PATENT CHARLES L. JONES, OF STOUGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN EDGE-BALL COMPOUNDS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,495, dated May 8,1877; application filed November 27,1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. JoNEs, of Stoughton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Composition for Ed ge-Ball, of which the following is a specification The nature of my invention relates to improving the polishing qualities of edge-ball for shoemaker-s use. To do this, I form a new composition, some of the ingredients of which are old, while others are new, for this purpose. The new constituents give the article firmness, hardness, and increased polishing qualities.

I make my composition substantially as fol lows: Melt together bayberry-tallow, twelve ounces; parafline, two ounces; white wax, two ounces; gum-arabic, (pulverized,) one-half ounce.

CHARLES L. JONES.

Witnesses:

FRANK G. PARKER, OHAs. H. Foee. 

